1672 in England

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Events from the year 1672 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Charles II

Events

The Burning of the Royal James at the Battle of Solebay, by Willem van de Velde

• 2 January - Cash payments by the Exchequer suspended for a year, due to fears of imminent bankruptcy.^[1]
• 15 March - King Charles II issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence, suspending execution of Penal Laws against Protestant nonconformists and Roman Catholics in his realms.^[2]
• 17 March - Third Anglo-Dutch War - England declares war on the Dutch Republic.^[2]
• 28 May (7 June New Style) - The first naval battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War is fought at the Battle of Solebay; indecisive.^[1]
• 13 September - John Bunyan released after a 12-year imprisonment for preaching without a licence.^[3]
• December - John Dryden's play Marriage à la Mode first performed in London by the King's Company.^[4]

Undated

• The bankrupt Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa is restructured into the new Royal African Company with a new, broader charter to trade into West Africa.
• Rebuilding begins of St Stephen Walbrook church in the City of London, designed by Christopher Wren.^[2]
• Rebuilding of Temple Bar, London, designed by Christopher Wren.
• First public concerts in England; organised by John Banister at Whitefriars, near Fleet Street.^[1]
• Richard Hoare becomes a partner in the London goldsmith's business which, as private banking house C. Hoare & Co., will survive through to the 21st century.^[5]

Births

• 9 April - Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton, Member of Parliament (died 1729)
• 1 May - Joseph Addison, politician and writer (died 1719)
• June - Henry Hyde, 4th Earl of Clarendon, politician (died 1753)
• 17 July (baptism) - Anthony Blackwall, scholar (died 1730)
• 29 July - Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, illegitimate son of Charles II (died 1723)
• John Huxham, surgeon (died 1768)
• John Lovelace, 4th Baron Lovelace, colonial governor (died 1709)
• Thomas Steers, civil engineer (died 1750)
• Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, diplomat and First Lord of the Admiralty (died 1739)

Deaths

• 15 January - John Cosin, clergyman (born 1594)
• 5 May - Samuel Cooper, painter (born 1609)
• 11 May - Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, royalist (born 1615)
• 28 May
  • Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, admiral (born 1625)
  • John Trevor, politician (born |1626)
• 27 June - Roger Twysden, antiquarian and royalist (born 1597)
• 3 July - Francis Willughby, biologist (born 1635)
• 8 August - Sir John Borlase, 1st Baronet, politician (born 1619)
• 24 October - John Webb, architect (born 1611)
• 15 November - Sir Walter Long, 1st Baronet of Whaddon, Member of Parliament (born c. 1603)
• 19 November - John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester (born 1614)
• 6 December - Jasper Mayne, dramatist (born 1604)
• 21 December - Charles Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby, (born 1628)
• Philip Nye, theologian (born c. 1595)
• Peter Sterry, theologian (born 1613)

References

1. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 191–192. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
2. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
3. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
4. "Chadwyck-Healey Database of English Prose Drama (through 1750)". Retrieved 2011-03-16.
5. Hutchings, Victoria (2005). Messrs Hoare, Bankers: a History of the Hoare Banking Dynasty.

See also